It seems so simple, but even hand washing takes practice.

It's National Hand Washing Week so WHSV stopped by Mt. view Elementary School to ask the school nurse how to wash your hands well enough to get rid of the germs.

There is a special cream that you can apply to your hands to mimic germs and the SGA President Taylor Evick offered to model this technique for us.

She applies the "fake germ cream" and sticks her hands under a black light to view them.

We asked her, “How does it make you feel about your hands?”

"Like I should wash them more," said Taylor.

The nurse has a trick to get her to wash her hands more or at least longer.

She told Taylor she could sing happy birthday twice.

"Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you...," sings Taylor.

To make sure that she is washing them long enough to get off all the germs.

She is supposed to get the napkin first to turn off the water, then dry her hands and use the napkin to open the door.

She did everything right, so let's see how clean her hands are under the ultraviolet light.

"The palm of the hands look good...maybe a little bit on this finger...you did pretty good," says Wanda Wampler, the school nurse.

Being healthy is a big deal to this school president.

"I won't like share food or anything that could possibly get me sick because keeping me sick would be keeping me from the school and that would just be a day without Mt. View," said Taylor.

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